The WTA Moscow River Cup tournament is taking place in Moscow from July 23 to July 29 with a prize money pool of $750,000.

"If Svitolina had come, she would have been a favorite of the tournament and could have won the maximum amount of the prize money. A worthy example," Yuriy Butusov, the editor-in-chief of the censor.net news portal, commented on Facebook.

He also mentioned that another well-known Ukrainian tennis player, Serhiy Stakhovsky, neither had participated in tournaments in Russia nor communicated with Russian media since March 2014.

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